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Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Medium is the Muse Launch

So, last summer NeoPoiesis Press published an anthology of creative work co-edited by yours truly and Adeena Karasick, entitled The Medium is the Muse. Remember?

So, last fall we had a bit of a book launch for the volume at a symposium held by the Institute of General Semantics in New York City. This took place on October 25, 2014, and consisted for five readings from contributors, beginning with my introduction:

I followed by reading an except from one of my pieces in the book:

Next came Mary Ann Allison's poetry reading:

This was followed by Marleen Barr reading the short story she wrote for the anthology:

And now, hold on to your hats for Stephen Roxborough's rather wild rendition of his poem from the book:

And to top it all off, my co-editor performed two of her poems from The Medium is the Muse:

Since you no doubt now want to order a copy, if you haven't got one already, or if you have, now realize a few extra copies would make for the perfect gift, here's a quick and direct link to Amazon: